PHCO_34266 - Clock change - Reboot Required ?

[susee]

Hi All

Iam installing the patch PHCO_34266 for australian clock change , does this patch requires reboot


Many thanks & Regards
Susee

[Kent Ostby]

No it doesn't.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Susee:

Installatin of the patch itself does not require nor cause a reboot.

However, once the modification has been made to the '/usr/lib/tztab' any new process started will fall under the new "rules". A restart of 'cron' would cover cron tasks. New logins would execute 'login()' so the processes spawned by those would also abide by the new time changes. A reboot of the server sometime before the mandated time change would then align everything --- things that are running and things that are later scheduled to run.

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

No; however, any currently running processes will not be aware of the tztab changes. At the very least, you should stop and restart the cron daemon.